The Seed Knowledge Hub is an open online repository hosted on the EC-LLD website, developed within Seeds of Growth, an Erasmus+ small-scale partnership in adult education, cofunded by the European Union and coordinated by Semínkovna (Czech Republic) with EC-LLD and SEED Luxembourg as partners.
The Hub brings together guides, technical manuals, case studies and policy materials on seed saving and cultivated diversity. What was included into it was decided on the basis of a capacity gap analysis that reached 868 people across Europe and collected 140 responses from seed savers, community seed bank managers and seed librarians.
The collection now holds over 100 resources and its growing thanks to the contributions of EC-LLD Members and the broader community.
If your organisation has produced materials that others could use, write to info@liberatediversity.org and we will add it. Material in any European language is welcome.
Explore our featured collections below, or use the filters to narrow the Hub by project, language and type of resource (presentations, videos, publications).
Seeds of Growth is an Erasmus+ partnership (September 2025 – December 2026) coordinated by Semínkovna with EC-LLD and SEED Luxembourg, working on community seed banks and seed saving in Europe. Here you will find the Capacity Gap Analysis, the recordings and slides of the Community Seed Bank Labs, and the presentations from the Prague meeting. In English and Czech.
LiveSeeding (2022–2026) is a Horizon Europe project coordinated by FiBL Europe, with 37 partners in 16 countries and a network of 17 Living Labs, to bring diverse organic cultivars to organic farming. This collection gathers its practice abstracts and handbooks, among them seed drying and storage, hot water treatment and organic heterogeneous material.
Since 2005, farmers, seed savers, researchers and activists meet at the Let’s Liberate Diversity! Forum. This collection holds the final reports of the recent editions, from Budapest 2022 to Scandicci 2026, and the presentations given in the Scandicci workshops.
Guide pratique pour concevoir et gérer des systèmes de documentation (formulaires, descripteurs, bases de données, échanges) destinés aux banques de semences communautaires.
Practical manual on designing and managing documentation systems for Community Seed Banks, covering descriptors, forms, databases, data sharing, software, procedures and a Pro Specie Rara case study.
Summary of FAO/Bioversity events (July 2018) on community seedbanks: roles, country examples, lessons and recommendations for legal recognition, technical support, networking and seed-quality improvements.
Practical manual for creating and running community seed libraries, based on Semínkovna’s 2015–2024 experience; covers setup, management, outreach, education, Czech legal notes and pilot projects.
Practical methodology (2015–2024) by Klára Hrdá for creating and managing seed libraries (Semínkovna): seed production, packaging, community mobilisation, Czech legal points, Seed Patron pilot and Czech–Moldovan project.
Presentation on participatory plant population development and seed stewardship to increase crop genetic diversity and resilience in low-input Croatian farming.
Presentation describing Oct 2025–May 2026 activities to preserve Balkan agrobiodiversity: exhibitions, seed exchanges, a national plant genetic resources network, and trainings to establish local seed banks.
Presentation on community-based seed systems in Tajikistan: history, threats from hybrid imports, and proposals to establish community seed banks, promote farmer seed custodians (especially women), training and exchange activities.
ARCHE NOAH presents participatory tomato breeding work in Austria using open-source ToBRFV resistance, breeding objectives, patent challenges, available resistant materials, and planned resistance testing (2026–2027).
Presentation on the Community Seed House concept: definitions, functions, coordination, funding, and implications of the new EU PRM regulation for community seed initiatives, with objectives for 2026–2030.
Five-step practical guide to create a community seed house: found an association, save local seeds, run training/events, build a seed network, and establish a seed house (SEED Luxembourg, Oct 2026).
Presentation on linking community seed banks with local communities: Rete Semi Rurali’s CSB Diversitas, manuals and tools, the Florentine Organic District case, participatory approaches and practical takeaways for replication.
Presentation by Llavors d’Ací on conserving and sharing traditional seeds in the Valencian Community through seed banks, exchanges, training and resources; includes post-2024 flood recovery guidance.
The LiveSeeding program has come to an end. Here we present a summary of their work and all the resources they’ve created for seed communities.
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The Seed Knowledge Hub has been developed within the context of the Erasmus+ project Seeds of Growth: Strengthening Community Seed Banks and Sustainable Seed-Saving Practices in Europe (Project ID: KA210-ADU-1727BE52)
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Dům zahraniční spolupráce (DZS). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
